During my formative years, I probably spent more time in…

“She said, 'He knows what I mean. Where did you get those shoes?' He said, 'They're training shoes.' She said, 'Training for what? Are…

— Alan Bennett

“Damn! If she had any idea what her bare toes did to me, she'd never take off her shoes again.”

— Ann Lister

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers…

— Richard Bach

My father grew up in Vermont, where he was raised on a dairy farm. He didn't have much money growing up, but he did…

— Johnny Gaudreau

My dad owns a hockey rink and he was sharpening my first pair of skates while I was still in the womb.

— Johnny Gaudreau

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

— Roseanne Barr

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local…

— Gary Neville

When you're a child, and you're growing up, and you're mimicking a certain character, or you're trying to live and breathe a certain character…

— Cole Sprouse

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years…

— Michael Hersch

I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been…

— Herbie Hancock

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly…

— Paul McCartney

I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in…

— Dinesh Paliwal

Who'd have thought that living life like a dime store floozy throughout your formative years could negatively affect your decision-making ability or long-term, future…

— Steven Crowder

In your formative years what you see really shapes so much of who you're going to become and so many of the things I…

— Ariana DeBose

During our formative years, it was all about, 'What did Metallica do?' and 'How do we do that?' and then you try and find…

— Synyster Gates